Smith took a hard turn into full fantasy with a story about Sirius, the spirit of the Dog Star, casting every living thing in the world except dogs into an unbreakable sleep and endowing all dogs with psychic powers and the ability of fast travel.Ģ3. Smith also wrote a sequel, The Starlight Barking, in 1967, which would have been a quite a movie.Ģ2. Smith first wrote The Hundred and One Dalmatians in Women’s Day magazine as the serialized story “The Great Dog Robbery” in 1956.Ģ1.

Peet was apparently quite pleased at Smith’s positive reaction to his adaptation, judging by how prominently her quotes are featured on his still-running website.Ģ0. Afterward, serif letters and typewriter sound effects display the name of Dodie Smith, author of the original novel, The Hundred and One Dalmatians.ġ9. Peet’s credit is his own handwritten signature, reflecting that he penned the film’s story by hand on legal paper because he didn’t know how to use a typewriter. And a fully colored and detailed background location with foreground animation goes with the art direction and production design credit.ġ8. A loop of dogs runs to honor the character animators, letters twinkle in the names of the effects animators, Pongo and Perdita appear on a city street for the names of the layout technicians, color washes across the background for the names of the color stylist and background artists.

A quick animation of Pongo’s head accompanies the names of the directing animators. Dalmatian spots form musical notes during the credit for the film’s music. In the final moments of The Wump World, the Wumps emerge from their hiding places and wander lost among the abandoned and inhospitable concrete wasteland, until they joyfully happen upon one last unspoiled remnant of their planet.ġ7. The Wump World follows an innocent society of capybara-like animals called Wumps, whose home is colonized into ruin by wasteful alien invaders who get back in their rocketships and find another planet to despoil the moment they have exhausted all the resources.ġ1. He went on to be a successful writer and illustrator of children’s books, including The Wump World.ġ0. Peet did quit just a few years after One Hundred and One Dalmatians came out, after arguing with Walt during the production of The Jungle Book. Peet nearly quit before he was promoted to the story department in time to work on Pinocchio.ĩ. Peet cut his teeth at Disney animation doing menial animation work on Donald Duck shorts.Ĩ. One Hundred and One Dalmatians was the first Disney animated feature to be written and storyboarded by one person, animator and writer Bill Peet.ħ.

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